Stanford Reshapes Engineering Curriculum

Submitted by Doug Lederman on March 23, 2010 - 3:00am

Stanford University is talking up a new model of engineering education, with less emphasis on traditional courses and more focus on solving big problems such as global warming, The San Francisco Chronicle[1] reported. While Stanford reports that students are embracing the new approach, officials say that they run into difficulty with the engineering accrediting body, which prefers more traditional engineering courses.